The military has used dozens of different bugle calls over the years to mark the time of day and to direct troop activities. Most of them are unfamiliar to the average person. However, it would be ...

The somber 24 notes of "Taps" brings closure at the burial of American service personnel. "Taps" is a tradition, but real buglers are difficult to find for services at Rock Island National Cemetery, a ...

(In the southeast corner of the 2,000-acre Sakura Park in New York City stands a bronze statue of Maj. Gen. Daniel Butterfield, a Civil War hero born and raised in Utica. It was sculpted by Gutzon ...

May 22—Gene Horner spent much of his life honoring veterans with his bugle at countless Alaska memorial and burial ceremonies. On Tuesday, it was Horner who was honored, as another bugler sounded taps ...

It woke them up and put them to bed. In between, it called them to assembly, to morning drills and to the mess hall. Years ago, the toot-toot-toot-a-toot of the bugle was as familiar on military bases ...

OTTAWA, Ill. (AP) -- Every veteran deserves to have the traditional bugle call of ``Taps'' played at their funeral. And in La Salle County, Alex Smith is ready to oblige. Smith is a member of Bugles ...

MANKATO — A bugler will play in honor of fallen soldiers 3 p.m. today at Fleet Farm, 1850 Premier Drive. The Mankato store is among several Fleet Farm stores partnering with Taps for Veterans for the ...

A Hopewell Township musician embraced the honor and opportunity of performing "Taps" for a seventh straight year at Gettysburg National Cemetery. "I am honored," David Bufalini said. Bufalini's bugle ...

This fall, World War II veteran Albert Madden, 92, from Hyannis, Mass., became one of the oldest buglers to play taps at Arlington National Cemetery. On Saturday, he'll play the song at the ...

May 26—The local Memorial Day Taps Across America tribute is scheduled to return for a fifth year Monday at 3 p.m. at Duke's Lounge & Dawg House on Sinclair Marina Road. By land or by lake, the public ...